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CV Updated: 21 July 2021 ______Born: 2 June 1973 in Idar-Oberstein, Germany Citizenship: German Sascha O. Becker: CV Updated: 21 July 2021 ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Born: 2 June 1973 in Idar-Oberstein, Germany Citizenship: German Department of Economics, Monash Business School, Melbourne Postal address: 900 Dandenong Rd, Building H, room 4.54, Caulfield East VIC 3145, Australia Email: [email protected] Personal Website: sobecker.de Google scholar profile: scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=TK4RHFEAAAAJ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Academic positions 8/2019- Professor and Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics, Monash University, Melbourne/Australia 8/2019- Part-time Professor, University of Warwick, UK Past appointments 10/2011-7/2019 Professor, University of Warwick, UK 07/2011-7/2019 Deputy Director, Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), University of Warwick 08/2010-09/2011 Associate Professor (with tenure), University of Warwick, UK 12/2008-07/2010 SIRE Chair (Full Professor with tenure), University of Stirling, UK 05/2008-11/2008 SIRE Reader (Associate Professor with tenure), University of Stirling, UK 01/2002-04/2008 Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, Germany ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Roles on Editorial Boards 2021-now Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) 2021-now Associate Editor, Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) 2021 Guest Editor (joint with Jessica Pan) for the 2021 AASLE conference issue in Labour Economics 2020-now Editorial Board member, Journal of Economics, Management and Religion (JEMAR) 2019-now Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Growth (JOEG) 2019-now Associate Editor, Journal of Comparative Economics (JCE) 2017-now Editorial Board member, Italian Economic Journal (IEJ) 2015-2021 Associate Editor, Economic Journal (EJ) 2009-2019 Editorial Board member, European Journal of Political Economy (EJPE) 2016-2019 Editorial Board member, Explorations in Economic History (ExEH) 2014-2016 Editorial Panel of Economic Policy (EP) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Research visits 07/2018 Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), Rome, Italy: Visiting Scholar 04/2018-05/2018 UCLA Anderson School of Management: Visiting Professor 08/2014-spring 15 UCLA Anderson School of Management: Visiting Professor 07/2013 Institute for Advanced Studies (IMT), Lucca, Italy: Visiting Professor 07/2012 Institute for Advanced Studies (IMT), Lucca, Italy: Visiting Professor 07/2011 Institute for Advanced Studies (IMT), Lucca, Italy: Visiting Professor 07/2010 Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), Rome, Italy: Visiting Scholar 07/2009 Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), Rome, Italy: Visiting Scholar 01/2006-07/2006 UC San Diego, USA, Visiting Scholar 01/2000-05/2000 UC Berkeley, Center for Labor Economics, USA: Visiting PhD student ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Education 01/2008 Habilitation and venia legendi in Economics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, Germany Reporters: Monika Schnitzer (LMU) and Hans-Werner Sinn (LMU) Awarded the “Habilitationspreis der Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer der LMU” in 2009 11/2001 Ph.D. in Economics, European University Institute, Florence, Italy; Thesis Committee: Michael J. Artis, David Card (Committee Chair), Andrea Ichino (supervisor), Jörn-Steffen Pischke 1997–2001 Doctoral Programme in Economics at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy 2000 UC Berkeley, Center for Labor Economics, USA: Visiting Student, Advisor: David Card 1992-1997 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany: Diplom (Masters) in Economics 1996-1997 École Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Économique (ENSAE), Paris, France 1995 Vordiplom (Undergraduate diploma) in Economics 1994 Vordiplom (Undergraduate diploma) in Mathematics 1 Published Articles in Refereed Journals 48) “Entrepreneur Death and Startup Performance” (with Hans K. Hvide), forthcoming at the Review of Finance https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfab015 47) “More Choice for Men? Marriage Patterns after World War II in Italy” (with Erich Battistin and Luca Nunziata), forthcoming at the Journal of Demographic Economics https://doi.org/10.1017/dem.2021.14 46) “The Impact of Public Employment: Evidence from Bonn” (with Stephan Heblich and Daniel Sturm), 2021, Journal of Urban Economics 121: Article 103291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2020.103291 45) “Jesus speaks Korean: Christianity and Literacy in Colonial Korea” (with Cheongyeon Won), 2021, Rivista di Storia Economica 37(1): 7-32. [Special issue in memory of Carlo Cipolla’s (1969) “Literacy and Development”] https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1410/99826 (https://doi.org/10.1410/99826) 44) “The Political Economy of the Prussian Three-class Franchise” (with Erik Hornung), 2020, Journal of Economic History, 80(4): 1143-1188. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050720000443 Altmetric scores: https://monash.altmetric.com/details/91369103 43) “Multiplex Network Ties and the Spatial Diffusion of Radical Innovations: Martin Luther's Leadership in the Early Reformation” (with Yuan Hsiao, Steven Pfaff and Jared Rubin), 2020, American Sociological Review 85(5): 857-894. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122420948059 Altmetric scores: https://sage.altmetric.com/details/89339139 42) “Prussia Disaggregated: The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871” (with Francesco Cinnirella), Journal of Demographic Economics, 86(3): 259–290. https://doi.org/10.1017/dem.2020.12 Altmetric scores: https://monash.altmetric.com/details/90928101 41) “Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers” (with Irena Grosfeld, Pauline A. Grosjean, Nico Voigtländer and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya), 2020, American Economic Review, 110 (5): 1430–1463. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20181518 Altmetric scores: https://monash.altmetric.com/details/74605997 40) “The Separation and Reunification of Germany : Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism” (with Lukas Mergele and Ludger Woessmann), 2020, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 34(2): 143-171. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.34.2.143 Altmetric scores: https://monash.altmetric.com/details/81578355 39) “Consequences of Forced Migration: Recent Findings (Adam Smith Lecture EALE 2018)” (with Andreas Ferrara), 2019, Labour Economics, 59: 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2019.04.009 Altmetric scores: https://monash.altmetric.com/details/55895189 38) “Discrimination in Hiring Based on Potential and Realized Fertility: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment” (with Ana Fernandes and Doris Weichselbaumer), 2019, Labour Economics, 59: 139–152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2019.04.009 Altmetric scores: https://monash.altmetric.com/details/59127564 37) “Religion, Division of Labor and Conflict: Anti-Semitism in Germany over 600 Years” (with Luigi Pascali), 2019, American Economic Review, 109 (5): 1764–1804. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20170279 Altmetric scores: https://monash.altmetric.com/details/54494303 36) “Who Voted for Brexit? Individual and Regional Data Combined” (with Eleonora Alabrese, Thiemo Fetzer and Dennis Novy), 2019, European Journal of Political Economy, 56: 132–150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2018.08.002 Altmetric scores: https://www.altmetric.com/details/52608437 35) “Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide” (with Ludger Woessmann), 2018, Review of Economics and Statistics, 100(3): 377-391, https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00708 Lead article Altmetric scores: https://monash.altmetric.com/details/27965285 34) “Effects of EU Regional Policy: 1989-2013” (with Peter H. Egger and Maximilian von Ehrlich), 2018, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 69: 143-152, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2017.12.001 Altmetric scores: https://monash.altmetric.com/details/30215261 33) “Who Voted for Brexit? A Comprehensive District-Level Analysis” (with Thiemo Fetzer and Dennis Novy), 2017, Economic Policy, 32(92): 601-650, https://doi.org/10.1093/epolic/eix012 Editor’s choice. Altmetric scores: https://oxfordjournals.altmetric.com/details/27479538 32) “Education and Religious Participation: City-Level Evidence from Germany’s Secularization Period 1890-1930” (with Markus Nagler and Ludger Woessmann), 2017, Journal of Economic Growth, 22(3): 273–311. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-017-9142-2 Altmetric scores: https://springeropen.altmetric.com/details/17025581 2 31) “Causes and Consequences of the Protestant Reformation” (with Steven Pfaff and Jared Rubin), 2016, Explorations in Economic History, 62: 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2016.07.007 Altmetric scores: https://monash.altmetric.com/details/10304205 30) “The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy” (with Katrin Boeckh, Christa Hainz and Ludger Woessmann), 2016, Economic Journal, 126(590): 40–74. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12220 Altmetric scores: https://monash.altmetric.com/details/2868274 29) “Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany” (with Marc-Andreas Muendler), 2015, Economic Policy, 30(84): 589–641. https://doi.org/10.1093/epolic/eiv014 Altmetric
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